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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
An internal Amazon memo from mid-2021 warns the company could run out of potential US warehouse workers by 2024 and suggests six remedies, such as raising wages — Unions might not be the tech giant's biggest labor threat. — Amazon is facing a looming crisis: It could run out of people …
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Engadget, The Guardian, The Register, Newser, Cybernews.com, PCMag, Insider, and On the Path
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils new robotic tech for its warehouses, including Proteus, its “first fully autonomous mobile robot” meant to safely move large carts around workers — It can pick things up, put them down, and move them around — Amazon has announced its “first fully autonomous mobile robot …
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YouTube, Input, PYMNTS.com, GeekWire, TechRadar, About Amazon, PCMag, Engadget, YouTube, TechCircle, Fossbytes, Silicon Republic, TechSpot, Digital Trends, and Forbes
Tweets: @mikelltaylor, @parismarx, @giano, @moreperfectus, @mikelltaylor, and @mattbeane
| Sascha Segan / PCMag: |
Nothing confirms phone (1) will not be fully supported by carriers in North America, as the company focuses on “home markets”, including the UK and Europe — It looks like Americans and Canadians are getting ... nothing. — Carl Pei's buzzy phone firm, which he says will be a top alternative …
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TechRadar, Android Authority, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Verge, MUO, Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, MobileSyrup, Liliputing, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, Wccftech, Notebookcheck.net, Android Headlines, and Droid Life
Tweets: @evleaks, @evleaks, @basche42, @saschasegan, and @rjeytech
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter partners with Shopify to launch a sales channel app, letting Shopify's US merchants sell products and engage customers via Twitter's Shopping Manager — As part of its ongoing efforts to expand into e-commerce, Twitter today announced a new partnership with Shopify.
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The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, The Economic Times, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, BetaKit, Bloomberg, and Adweek
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
MacBook Pro 13-inch (M2) review: dominant single-core performance with good battery life, but just two USB-C ports, design from 2016, and webcam is still bad — Apple has put a 2022 CPU in a 2016 computer — I don't really care what the M2 MacBook Pro gets on benchmarks.
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XDA Developers, Engadget, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, iMore, TheStreet, CNET, Macworld, Wired, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, PCMag, MacRumors, Six Colors, Tom's Guide, Tech Advisor, Wccftech, iClarified, MobileSyrup, T3, Tom's Guide, Pocket-lint, iMore, YouTube, and independent
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| Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: |
Google redesigns News, elevating local news and fact checks, and relaunches the service in Spain after eight years, following Spain adopting EU copyright rules — Google News is relaunching in Spain almost eight years after it shut down to avoid paying publishers when the country introduced …
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, The Keyword, Engadget, Android Police, The Verge, Hollywood Reporter, Search Engine Land, and TechCrunch
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Tether plans to launch a stablecoin pegged to the British pound in July, dubbed GBPT, initially available on Ethereum, its fifth fiat-pegged stablecoin — - Tether has launched a new stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the British pound. — It will be initially available on Ethereum.
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tether.to, The Guardian, CoinQuora, Defillama round-up🦙, CryptoSlate, Coinspeaker, Cointelegraph, CryptoPotato, The Economic Times, Fortune, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @tether_to, @alexhern, @alexhern, @basche42, and @hkanji
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter tests Twitter Notes with select users, for creating long-form content with rich text formatting and uploaded media that can be tweeted upon publishing — In what could be one of Twitter's more significant changes since doubling the character count from 140 to 280 characters …
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9to5Mac, Neowin, KnowTechie, PhoneArena, The Verge, Fossbytes, and RECHEIO
Tweets: @twitterwrite, @brandyljensen, @dlberes, and @robpilk
| Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: two of Amazon's top Black executives, SVP of logistics warehouses Alicia Boler Davis and VP of transportation services Dave Bozeman, are leaving — Two of Amazon.com Inc.'s top Black executives are leaving amid a management shakeup as Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy puts … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail fundamental cryptography flaws in MEGA's end-to-end encryption scheme that could let the cloud storage service decipher stored files — Fundamental flaws uncovered in Mega's encryption scheme show service can read your data. — In the decade since larger …
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MEGA: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry. More:
Malwarebytes Labs, The Hacker News, Newslit Daily, Candid.Technology, and TorrentFreak
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Crypto exchange FalconX, which focuses on institutions, has raised a $150M Series D led by GIC and B Capital at an $8B valuation, up from $3.75B in August 2021 — Despite a rocky couple of months for crypto, San Francisco-based FalconX locked up a $150 million Series D and more than doubled its valuation from just 10 months ago.
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The Block, SiliconANGLE, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Coinspeaker, Reuters, Blockworks, Tech in Asia, Bloomberg, and PR Newswire
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Slack plans to add support for video calling to Huddles, rolling out in the fall — Adding video to Slack's popular Huddles feature could herald a new digital hang space—or just reinvent the video meetings wheel. — In the Before Times, we used to huddle in real life.
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The Verge, Gizmodo, Computerworld, Protocol, 9to5Mac, and Fast Company
| Augusta Saraiva / Bloomberg: |
Hired: despite D&I initiatives, female African American tech workers earned $0.92 for every $1 a white male counterpart earned in 2021, down from $0.94 in 2020 — As American corporations announce a record number of diversity and inclusion initiatives, Silicon Valley has seen … | CoinDesk: |
Crypto broker Voyager says its exposure to Three Arrows Capital consists of 15,250 bitcoin and $350M USDC; Voyager might issue a “notice of default” — The crypto broker said it's on the hook for about $370 million of bitcoin and $350 million of USDC and has asked for a repayment installment by Friday.
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PR Newswire. More:
Decrypt, Bloomberg, Reuters, Crypto Briefing, CryptoSlate, The Block, Ethereum World News, and CryptoPotato
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| Alexis Hancock / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Analysis finds HiMama and other popular daycare apps lack 2FA and have privacy-compromising features like trackers that were not disclosed in privacy policies — Last year, several parents at EFF enrolled kids into daycare and were instantly told to download an application for managing their children's care.| Tom Matsuda / The Block: |
Blockchain payments infrastructure company Roxe plans to go public via SPAC on the Nasdaq, valuing it at $3.6B — - Blockchain payments infrastructure company Roxe has announced plans to list on the Nasdaq via a SPAC called Goldenstone Acquisition. — The company says it will be valued at $3.6 billion after the merger.
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GlobeNewswire News Room, Coinspeaker, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, and PYMNTS.com
| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
In its first annual report, Meta's Oversight Board says the company has made some progress but needs to improve transparency on content removals — Oversight Board issues annual report outlining the company's compliance with policy recommendations — More than a year after its creation … | Financial Times: |
Hong Kong court records: crypto exchange Huobi has launched a lawsuit against a former executive over accusations he made $5M trading against a Huobi account — Employee allegedly made $5mn after setting up a retail account in his father's name — A former senior manager at Huobi …
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The Block, Blockworks, CryptoPotato, Decrypt, Tech in Asia, Investing.com India, Blockchain News, and watcher.guru. Tweets: @kadhim
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Appsmith, which offers low-code tools to build enterprise apps, raised a $41M Series B led by Insight Partners and says it has over 7,000 monthly active users — For the last several years, Appsmith has been quietly building an open source platform for internal development teams to build the custom apps they need.| Antoaneta Roussi / Politico: |
NSO Group General Counsel Chaim Gelfand tells EU lawmakers that at least five EU countries used Pegasus and says the company “made mistakes” — The Israeli spyware firm NSO Group on Tuesday told European lawmakers at least five EU countries have used its software and the firm … | Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
A DARPA report finds blockchains are vulnerable to “unintended centralities”, such as powerful new crypto miners, that could pervasively affect their security — The report points to a handful of, “unintended centralities,” it argues could concentrate blockchain power in the hands of a few select individuals or groups.
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Trail of Bits. More:
Trail of Bits Blog, The Register, SlashGear, NPR, Engadget, and Nextgov
Tweets: @darpa, @newsforbitcoin, and @dwbradley
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
An analysis of how Apple's ATT approach is blatantly anti-competitive and harms targeted advertising that is an essential ingredient to the new internet economy — Last week the German Bundeskartellamt ("Federal Cartel Office") announced in a press release:
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Mobile Dev Memo, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and MacRumors
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Meta agrees to alter its ad targeting and pay a $115,054 fine to settle a DOJ discrimination lawsuit for allegedly limiting which Facebook users saw housing ads — HUD had accused Meta of engaging in housing discrimination by letting advertisers restrict who could see housing ads on Facebook based …
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Meta and U.S. Department of Justice. More:
Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, VICE, Insider, Fossbytes, TechCircle, SiliconANGLE, CNET, theepochtimes.com, ZDNet, Washington Post, Shacknews, The Hill, CNBC, Reuters, and TechCrunch
| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Binance.US plans to eliminate fees for spot bitcoin trading for all customers, in a bid to attract new investors — Exchange's users can trade bitcoin for the U.S. dollar, tether, other stablecoins without spot trading fees — Cryptocurrency exchange Binance.US said it is eliminating fees on spot bitcoin trading for all customers.| Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal: |
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